Tag: Shamanism

• Remembering the Healing Stories

  Lauret Savoy ends Traces with this: “Remembering is an alternative to extinction.” Remembering is a well-formed story. One of my early clinical teachers used to insist that neurosis was that which prevented the development of healing story, and that psychotherapy was the search for stories that worked. I’ve come to the conclusion that this is…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 17, 2016

  Healing, native american, Psychotherapy, Shamanism, Stories

  healing, Jr., Martin Luther kIng, Native American, psychotherapy, Shamanism, stories

• Turning Within Time

  Winter has settled in; this is the Turning Within Time. I’m sitting at a table with five others. It’s Thursday evening, after a long work day. Tonight is our monthly winter artists/writers group. Everyone at the table is busily creating. Beside me, a writer sits with open notebook, pondering. On my right side a visual…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 8, 2016

  native american, Shamanism, Stories

  Native American, Shamanism, Turning Within Time, Winter

• Ceremony and Autumn Light

  

  We’ve arrived at that mythic time of year when the trees are devoid of leaves, and the sunlight, now always at a steep angle, seems to bring an inner glow to everything it touches. November here has been warm and sunny, both anomalous given the long-term averages. Indeed, it was our warmest October on record,…

  Michael Watson PhD

  November 18, 2015

  native american, Shamanism

  ceremony, children, Native American, Shamanism

• Ancestors, Ceremony, and Trauma

  

  Today dawned gray and wet. We took advantage of the clock change, and slept in. Now, to the west the low overcast is raising. The oaks have turned abruptly; the maples have largely dropped their leaves and the breeze moves their bare branches. It is the sort of day that Thomas Hardy celebrated when he…

  Michael Watson PhD

  November 1, 2015

  Healing, Shamanism, Teaching

  ancestors, autumn, ceremony, healing, Shamanism